Re: Spice License

Leo Sutic wrote:
>>From: Stephen McConnell [mailto:[email protected]] 
>   /*
>    * Copyright (C) The Spice Group. All rights reserved.
>    *
>    * This software is published under the terms of the Spice
>    * Software License version 1.1, a copy of which has been included
>    * with this distribution in the LICENSE.txt file.
>    */
> 
> Looks like the result of a misapplied search/replace.
> 
> Still, it shouldn't be in Avalon CVS.

it is not (unless I'm missing something). I believe Peter has imported 
the cli code into spice, then did some repackaging, then reassigned 
copyright. The spice license is the ASL, with a different copyright.

I am not sure whether it is okay to reassign copyright like this; since 
Peter is the original author of excalibur-cli I suspect it is legally 
defensible. I do think I think it is immoral, esp. when not discussed 
with the ASF first, but this stuff always really confuses me.

> And I don't think having Spice as a dependency is any good.

why?

cheers,

- Leo